Yang Kai needs a strategist. Or he would need, but the structure of this story doesn't really bend to such a thing because at the end of the day, he's mostly adventuring on his own, even he keeps interacting with people a lot, friends, strangers, and, most of all, enemies. So, how could a strategist tag along? Now much of this operation is left for Yang Kai to handle, but he's not really in his own element here. He can come up with schemes, but they are either really straightforward and simple, or they span only a brief moment of time and rely heavily on his special skills and luck. In this operation, his own skills, apart from being able to resist ink, are next to useless. That's why he will struggle to come up with any plans and will just need to meet people and hope opportunities appear on their own.